Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · Jun 9 Did they take this old 3D render and get AI to turn it into an "illustration"...?
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And it has that ‘classic’ yellow tint that has been showing up since Ghibli AI slop flooded the internet with said tint, and then AI retained on AI slop, allegedly.
Oh my god, I think they did! It's the same pose!
I'm pretty convinced. They took already existing illustrations or renders, slapped them together and ran them through a filter to make it look like Nomura's. Then they decided for some goddamn reason that there should be a version with swapped positions, and instead of making it from scratch they
You've convinced me 110% That is literally what they did Photobashed a whole bunch of random character shots and told Claude to make it a cartoon
Wait... Why would you even do that? Neural style transfer is even older than genAI and does that task so trivially there are dozens of websites and apps that offer it since you can run it locally in browser on a 15 year old computer. It just wastes money.
boy it sure fuckin looks like it!